"And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer--for, depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. And as to my poor word 'success,' which you quarrel with, I do not know that I am so entirely without claim to it. You have drawn two pretty pictures, but I think there may be a third--a somthing beween do-nothing and do-all. If I had not promoted Mr. Weston's visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might not have come to anything after all. I think you must know Hartfield enough to comprehend that."

~Emma